Showing Up for Recovery: A meditation on hawks-in-winter
I often look to nature to find my fortitude and inspiration for recovery and wellness. I'm happy...
Pill Police?
You must be paranoid!
Or then again... Imagine being diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2012....
It's Not All In My Head: Stigma in medical settings
Recently I had to see a dental specialist to have a tooth repaired. As I sat in the waiting area...
Lead Shoes and Institutional Peonage
During my study of consumer/survivor/ex-patient history, I took these photographs at Vermont...
Institutional Rubber Stamps
There are small museums, all over the world, detailing the history of asylums. Throughout the...
The First Slave Admitted to the South Carolina Lunatic Asylum
In the 1990s, I did a lot of primary source research about the history of mental health care in...
Peer Staff as Disruptive Innovators
There is a tension at the heart of our work as peer staff. It is the tension between Love and...
Emancipatory Technologies
I created CommonGround to amplify people's voice in the 15-minute psychiatric medication...
Loneliness: A Call to Generosity
Like many people, I experienced periods of intense loneliness during my recovery after being...
Howie the Harp
I just finished filming recovery videos in New York City last week. We shot about 36 videos of...
Author
Pat Deegan
My partner and I founded a company run by and for people in recovery. The mission: To safeguard human dignity by bringing individual voice and choice to the center of the clinical care team. Toward this end I developed the CommonGround Program including Software and the Distressing Voices Simulation.
